NOTTINGHAM SPORTS CAR CLUB October 2011 1 CLUB WEBSITE www.gosprinting.co.uk Don’t forget to visit the Club Web Site. Its full of useful information from Club events and dates to results, Championship positions, downloadable regs and membership forms and details. If you’ve got something that could be useful to other NSCC Club members, then why not advertise it on the Web site. For further details contact Andrew Warren on :- [email protected] SPIN OFF ARTICLES Breaking news, adverts, for sale items, letters, views and race & event write ups should be sent to the Editor. Copy date for the next Spin Off:- 14th December 2011 And sent to : Paul Marvin. 4 Marriott Drive, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester LE8 0JX Tel : Mobile : 07715 353440 or Email : [email protected] 2 IN THIS ISSUE Chairmans Chatter 4 Editors Mutterings 5 2012 Provisional Championship Rounds 6 2011 Championship & Trophy Positions 7 - 8 Thoresby Park : Calvin Andrew 9 - 11 AGM & Award Presentation details & Membership Update 12 NSCC Committee & Officers proposed for 2011 AGM 13 Marshals Update 14 Mole Racing Final 2011 Report 15 - 17 AGM Nomination Form 18 Winter Paddocks 19 Funny Anecdotes 20 Thoresby Park - Sunday - Martin Parkes 21 - 22 MSA News 23 - 26 Official & Committee contacts 27 Acknowledgement The artwork on the front cover is re-printed with the kind permission of the well known motorsport cartoonist Jim Bamber. Jim has very kindly allowed me to use his illustra- tions. For a sneek preview why not visit his web site www.jimbamber.co.uk 3 In the absence of a Chairmans Report this month I’ve hijacked his page to remind all the membership that we are looking for nomina- tions for the Wonky Trophy and the Brian Tustain Award which are both given out at the AGM in November. RETURN OF 2010 AWARDS Can we ask that any award winners from 2010 make con- tact with Keith Graham as soon as possible (details at the back of Spin Off) to make arrangements for the re- turn of their silverware please. The Committee are also looking for nominations from the membership for the following awards:- The Wonky Trophy : this exactly what it is; a wonky trophy. We need the mem- bership to suggest for the committee’s consideration, any person(s) who might deserve this award. The crite- ria is fairly straightforward. Any form of mishap that makes us smile or just plain split our sides! It can be a driver, marshal, official almost anyone providing they are a member of NSCC. The Brian Tustain Award : The Brian Tustain Award is a long standing award within NSCC and again is open to be awarded to any NSCC member. The criteria here is fairly simple as well in that it is awarded for meritorious action or work that has benefited the club. Would you please help us by sending any nominations you feel suitable to the Chairman in the first instance either by post or email. (details on page 27) 4 Editors Mutterings This has to be one of the “smallest” editions of Spin Off I’ve created in the last year or so that I’ve been publishing it. Your contributions really do count and I urge you all to let me have any creative writings you are prepared to have published. My thanks to all those who have gone to the trouble of sending theirs to me but there has definitely been an overall shortage of event reports this year. Please check out page 18 of Spin Off this month as there is the Com- mittee Application form if any of you are interested in joining the com- mittee at this years AGM. Your help in running the Club is always wel- comed. If you want an informal chat beforehand, give Roger Carrington a call and he can brief you on what might be involved. Winter Paddocks kick off again this month and are held on the last Fri- day in each month barring November where we meet at the AGM. See page 19 for further details. Your hard working Competition Secretary Steve Brown has been hard at it once again toiling away with the 2012 Championship event invita- tions and has managed to secure you with a potential 22 event champi- onship for you. Mind you, there’s a heck of a choice on April 15th! Blyton Park Raceway in Lincolnshire has finally appeared on the calen- dar. You may remember me rambling on about the potential for this circuit over the last 18 months or so. The circuit owners have now spent a fortune on having a very large proportion of the circuit completely re- surfaced. Another plus point for Blyton is that it can safely be run in ei- ther direction. Westfield Sports Car Club have secured a weekend in July to which we have accepted an invitation for both days to be part of the NSCC Championship. I urge you to go along, it should be a good weekend, the Westfield boys always put on a good event. It remains to be seen however if they can generate enough interest and entries to make it a viable proposition. We’ll have to wait and see. Ed 2012 NSCC SPEED PROVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR R’nd Date Day Circuit Organising Club 1 March Mallory Park BARC (Midlands) 2 Apr 15th Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorkshire) 3 Apr 15th Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & District 4 Apr 15th Sunday Silverstone Sheffield & Hallamshire 5 Apr 22nd Sunday Curborough NSCC 6 Apr 28th Saturday Aintree Liverpool MC 7 May 12th Saturday MIRA Bentley DC 8 June 2nd Saturday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 9 June 3rd Sunday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 10 June 9th Saturday Anglesey Chester MC 11 June 10th Sunday Anglesey Chester MC 12 June 17th Sunday Curborough Westfield SCC 13 Jun 30th Saturday Aintree Liverpool MC 14 July 8th Sunday Curborogh 2 lap NSCC 15 July 21st Saturday Blyton Westfield SCC 16 July 22nd Sunday Blyton Westfield SCC 17 Aug 11th Saturday MIRA NSCC 18 Aug 19th Sunday Olivers Mount Auto 66 19 Aug 26th Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorkshire) 20 Sept 1st Saturday Aintree Liverpool MC 21 Sept 9th Sunday Loton Park Hagley & District 22 Sept 10th Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & District MC 23 Sept 15th Saturday Thoresby Park NSCC 24 Sept 16th Sunday Thoresby Park NSCC 6 “Provisional” Championship Positions 2011 (check website for final details please) Pos cc Points 1st Gary Thomas 5A Force PT 1070 155.43 2nd Richard Abraham 2A Westfield SE 1700 153.33 SB Renault Alpine/Clio Wil- 3rd Tony Hart 1997 148.71 /1C liams 4th John Allen 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1900 147.73 5th Robert Smith 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1900 147.20 6th Tim Burrill 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1908 145.66 7th Nigel Cresswell 3F Fisher Fury 1398 124.57 8th Gordon Peters 3C Nissan 350Z GT 3500 119.14 SB Renault Alpine/Clio Wil- 9th Peter Hart 1998 115.26 /1C liams 10th Martin Parkes 2A Westfield SE 1700 114.95 11th John Clarke 2A Caterham 7 1588 106.53 12th Richard Stephens 1A Peugeot 106 Rallye 1294 99.47 13th Steve Miles 5D Van Diemen RF96 1999 95.82 14th Reginald Wild SA Renault 5 1397 87.90 15th Stephen Morrison 3C Ford Sierra XR4i 2900 74.88 7 “PROVISIONAL” HARRY DRIVER TROPHY POSITIONS 1st Gary Thomas 5A Force PT 1070 78 2nd Richard Abraham 2A Westfield SE 1700 69 3rd Steve Miles 5D Van Diemen RF96 1999 60 4th Nigel Cresswell 3F Fisher Fury 1398 54 5th Gordon Peters 3C Nissan 350z GT 3500 52 6th John Allen 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1900 39 “PROVISIONAL” CLASSIC CAR (MILLER TROPHY) POSITIONS 1st Rodney Ellis SB Lotus Elan 1558 132.69 2nd Stephen Morrison 3C Ford Sierra XR4i 2900 102.89 3rd Calvin Andrew 3B Bond Equipe 1496 100.54 4th Ben Stanbridge 3B Bond Equipe 1496 100.52 5th John Savage 3C Ford Sierra XR4i 2900 82.69 “PROVISIONAL” DES RICHARDSON TROPHY POSITIONS 1st Robert Smith 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1900 58.60 2nd Nigel Cresswell 3F Fisher Fury 1398 57.64 3rd John Allen 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1900 56.30 4th Tim Burrill 1B Peugeot 205 GTI 1908 55.73 5th Reg Wild SA Renault 5 1397 54.98 6th Gordon Gunn SA Peugeot 205 Rallye 1360 54.18 Any errors, omissions or discrepancies with any of these published Provisional Results must be reported to Lee Griffiths (NSCC Championship scorer). The Results will remain Provisional for 3 weeks from the 21st September, after which, subject to notification of any changes, they will become FINAL. Please check club website for details. 8 Thoresby Park report- 17-18th September 2011. Well, I haven’t done an event write up for some time, my job has got hellishly busy and every time I get to a computer, I’m either knackered or have something that I get paid to do to get done. Some would say (Ben and Mike for example) that the fact I have been beaten in my own car by someone else (Ben and Mike for example ) for the last four events might suggest that I am a bad sport but I hold myself up to be a sportsman of great honour and would not allow myself to behave so dishonourably. (Did some- one cough?). This Thoresby was to be the last time that I drove my cute but now scruffy Bond Equipe in competition before seeking to sell it and fund the new project. The car has had twin Weber carburet- tors attached since Thoresby 2010 and I was expecting it to be faster.